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25 Roubles Second Provisional Siberian Administration
| Issuer | Provisional Siberian Administration - State Treasury |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The left portion bears an ornate vertical cartouche in dark ink with an arabesqued guilloche surround enclosing a double-headed eagle vignette, flanked by the large numeral '25' in the left margin. The field is covered in a light blue interlocking geometric underprint pattern throughout. The main text area carries the Cyrillic treasury obligation inscription in script lettering, with trilingual marginal legends in Russian, French, and English along the side borders, and the date and place of issue at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted save for a continuous all-over geometric guilloche pattern in blue-green ink on cream paper, formed by a dense interlocking lattice of small rounded hexagonal motifs, with no additional text, vignette, or serial numbering. |
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The Provisional Siberian Administration — formally the government of Admiral Kolchak's White forces headquartered at Omsk — issued this note during one of the most chaotic monetary episodes of the Russian Civil War. By 1919, the territory under White control was hemorrhaging value across multiple competing currency systems simultaneously: Romanov-era tsarist notes, Kerensky-era Provisional Government issues, and locally printed Siberian obligations all circulated together, with exchange rates shifting weekly.
Omsk fell to Bolshevik forces in November 1919, and Kolchak's administration collapsed with it. Notes printed there but not yet distributed were abandoned or destroyed in the retreat east along the Trans-Siberian Railway.